@sarah_oberlin recently turned my attention to a different Mock Strawberry than Potentilla indica. It turns out many P. hebiichigo plants have been misidentified as P. indica because this foreign invasive species has not been well described and is missing in many regional keys. A few of us (thanks @…

[image] bottanydot: flowers cannot be discerned (as far as I know), Note to self: never make an observation without fruit or someone will bump it back to genus.

Earlier I was noting that the common name Yellow-flowered Mock Strawberry didn’t really make sense since both species have yellow flowers. I noticed that the scientific name was Japanese for snake (hebi) strawberry (ichigo). I looked at the Japanese Wikipedia page for this species and found that the…

[image] lappelbaum: Maybe we should call it “Snake Strawberry” for the English common name instead of Yellow-flowered Mock Strawberry. I think, per the guidelines, common names should only be added if actually in use in that language. Unless Snake Strawberry is actually in use in English, a b…

English Wikipedia already uses “Snake berry” for Potentilla indica: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potentilla_indica

The only other mention of a common name I could find was this: According to a user on steemit. com (a site which I have never heard of) it is „commonly known as the snakeberry cinquefoil, or creeping cinquefoil“: https://steemit.com/photography/@jarintasmin/potentilla-hebiichigo-flower But I doubt…

It was previously unknown in English speaking countries so it doesn’t have an English common name. So then we should remove Yellow-flowered Mock Strawberry and just have the scientific name? What if @sarah_oberlin uses a common name in her published scientific note? Can we then use that name on iNat…

[image] lappelbaum: So then we should remove Yellow-flowered Mock Strawberry and just have the scientific name? If it really isn’t in use anywhere, then yes, I think so. Especially as it is misleading. (Since as you said, both it and P. indica have yellow flowers) [image] How to Add a Comm…

Is it known to grow in Europe? I quickly went through Czech observations and all seem to conform to the P. indica description.

I think leaving it as just the scientific name on iNat is fine (remove current yellow-flowered name). I guess I’m more interested in what I should call it when talking to people IRL than what to put on iNaturalist. It’s super common here in SE Texas. Not everyone is good with remembering or pronounc…

Potentilla indica vs. Potentila hebiichigo

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sarah_oberlin October 8, 2024, 3:37pm 12

Not in Europe proper so far as I can tell. Georgia, which straddles Eastern Europe/West Asia, has some P. hebiichigos!

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Potentilla indica vs. Potentila hebiichigo

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